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La II Conferencia Internacional de Historiadores e Historia de Universidades, reunió hasta este viernes en Pinar del Río a investigadores del área, empeñados en salvaguardar las tradiciones.

Una muestra del artista plástico cubano Juan Picasso, primo lejano del célebre pintor de Guernica, será inaugurada el 6 de noviembre en la galería Guayasamín, en el centro histórico habanero.

La Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) de Estados Unidos fue responsable de un atentado sufrido por un barco que transportaba ómnibus británicos hacia Cuba en 1964, revela hoy el diario The Observer.

El abuso de medicamentos de prescripción se ha extendido tanto en algunas regiones del mundo, como el uso de drogas ilícitas, indicó hoy aquí el doctor Eusebio Pérez Flores, de México.

The new edition of the magazine Cine Cubano is dedicated mainly to the 40th anniversary of the premiere of the most emblematic of Cuban films, Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomas Gutiérrez Alea, and to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Ballet of Cuba.

Members of the Cuban doctors brigade will be working at five hospitals along with Guatemalan specialists instructing pediatricians, orthopedics, anesthesiologists, gynecologists and obstetricians, and surgeons.

With his work El asesinato (The Murder), the writer José Fernando Orpí, from Santiago de Cuba, won the ninth national Vértice competition, of short stories, in the capital of the also eastern province of Granma.

For decades, one issue has dominated South Florida politics: U.S. policy toward Cuba.
But this year, pollsters say a remarkable shift appears to be under way as generational and demographic changes appear to be reshaping the South Florida political map.

The popular band Los Van Van will perform next Tuesday in Los Palacios, which is one of the most damaged regions of Pinar del Río province by hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

Workers at the Nickel Processing Company (MEKANIQUEL) in the mining region of Moa, Holguin, received the “National Vanguard” distinction for 2007, during the National Day of tribute to Geologists and Miners.

In views to improving the supply of drinkable water to the population, Cuba executes a program of investments that already benefits to 10, 284 families of this provincial capital city, located 690 kilometers to the east of Havana. 

ICT said in an official communiqué that the new vitolas will be launched at the 26th International Havana Fair (FIHAV 2008), scheduled to open on November 3.

The renovation of the Camilo Cienfuegos hospital –the main secondary care health center in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus- continues despite difficulties.